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Comment by rsynnott

17 hours ago

“Risky things that will work” - contradiction in terms. If companies only did things they knew would work, we probably still wouldn’t have microchips.

Also, like… it’s Facebook. It has a history of ploughing billions into complete nonsense (see metaverse). It is clearly not particularly risk averse.

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